The US Department of Homeland Security has developed a Cyber Security research roadmap to attempt to define a national R&D agenda to enable them to get ahead of their adversaries and produce the technologies that will protect the US information systems and networks into the future.
The intent of the Roadmap is to provide detailed research and development agendas for the future relating to 11 hard problem areas in cybersecurity, for use by agencies of the U.S. Government and other potential R&D funding sources.
The 11 hard problems are:
1. Scalable trustworthy systems (including system architectures and requisite
development methodology)
2. Enterprise-level metrics (including measures of overall system trustworthiness)
3. System evaluation life cycle (including approaches for sufficient assurance)
4. Combatting insider threats
5. Combatting malware and botnets
6. Global-scale identity management
7. Survivability of time-critical systems
8. Situational understanding and attack attribution
9. Provenance (relating to information, systems, and hardware)
10. Privacy-aware security
11. Usable security
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